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7 1 -2 0 2 1 9 1 ISSUE 2479 | antiquestradegazette.com | 13 February 2021 | UK £4.99 | USA $7.95 | Europe €5.50 S E E R 50years D koopman rare art V A I R N T antiques trade G T H E KOOPMAN (see Client Templates for issue versions) THE ART M ARKET WEEKLY [email protected] +44 (0)20 7242 7624 www.koopman.art Dealer portal Caroline Lay (pictured below), art sale manager at David Lay, is the great-great takes over niece of Ella Naper who sat for this painting by Laura Knight. It sold for £105,000 in 70-year-old Penzance on January 28. Chelsea fair by Laura Chesters Chelsea Antiques Fair is to return later this year under the ownership of an online dealing platform. Caroline Penman, who has run the venerable event at the Chelsea Old Town Hall since the early 1980s, had recently been looking to sell the event. She has now agreed a deal for an undisclosed fee with 2Covet.com founders Steve Sly, Charles Wallrock (both dealers) and marketing specialist Zara Rowe. While coronavirus restrictions remain in place there is no confirmed date for the first fair. However, an event in autumn this year is planned. ‘Return to former glory’ Sly, Wallrock and Rowe created 2Covet.com in 2019 as a platform for dealers to sell online. Pick Sly said: “With the continued threat of Covid on our minds we strongly feel the of the market will relish smaller boutique events So what am I bid for week such as the historic Chelsea Antiques Fair. It is a time to return the fair to its former glory years.” my great-great aunt? The fair would normally run in March but last year’s edition was cancelled due to A nude study by Dame Laura Knight (1877-1970) found time and is now in the National Portrait Gallery. the virus. plenty of admirers when it appeared at the latest fine art The auctioneer on the rostrum on January 28 was her The autumn event will host around 30 sale held by Penzance saleroom David Lay (18% buyer’s great-great niece Caroline Lay, who is art sale manager at dealers, initially inviting 2Covet members premium). the auction house. and former Chelsea exhibitors, across a Dating from c.1913, it depicts Ella Naper – the same The catalogue entry suggested this was an ‘early study seven-day event. sitter who appears in the artist’s most famous painting of Ella Naper that led to Knight’s most celebrated work’. Self-portrait with nude which dates from around the same Continued on page 8 Continued on page 5 Forthcoming Auctions Fine Art & Antiques | 20th February Signed & Designed | 5th March See details Jewellery, Watches & Silver | 20th March on page 7 t. 01765 699200 Bid live at: www.elstobandelstob.co.uk Ripon Business Park, Charter Road, Ripon, HG4 1AJ PAGE 001, 004, 005 2479.indd 1 05/02/2021 13:44:43 Follow us on Twitter Antiques Trade Gazette is published and originated by Metropress Ltd, Contents@ATG_Editorial Issue 2479 trading as Auction Technology Group Ltd Read top stories every day on our website antiquestradegazette.com auctiontechnologygroup.com Find us on: Follow us on Twitter Chief Executive Officer John-Paul Savant Chief Operating Officer Richard Lewis @ATG_Editorial Find us on: Publishing Director Matt Ball Editor-at-Large Noelle McElhatton Deputy Editor, News Laura Chesters Deputy Editor, Features & Supplements Roland Arkell Commissioning Editor Anne Crane Chief Production Editor Tom Derbyshire Digital & Art Market Editor Alex Capon Reporter Frances Allitt Marketing Manager Beverley Marshall In The News page 4-5 Print & ProduCtion Director Justin Massie-Taylor US doubloon takes $7.8m gold coin record SUBSCRIPTIONS ENQUIRIES Polly Stevens +44 (0)20 3725 5507 Smash and grab raids hit the London trade [email protected] EDITORIAL Christie’s stages sale for Brighton dealer +44 (0)20 3725 5520 [email protected] ADVERTISING News Digest page 8-9 +44 (0)20 3725 5604 Includes pick of the week [email protected] AUCTION ADVERTISING Traditional cheer Charlotte Scott-Smith +44 (0)20 3725 5602 Auction Reports [email protected] Despite no public viewing NON-AUCTION ADVERTISING HAMMER HIGHLIGHTS available, the Oak Interior Dan Connor +44 (0)20 3725 5605 No viewings, no problem for bidders page 12-15 auction attracts eager bidders [email protected] CLASSIFIED ART MARKET page 12-13 Rebecca Bridges +44 (0)20 3725 5604 [email protected] ‘Guercino’ catches the eye page 16-18 INTERNATIONAL ADVERTISING BOOKS AND WORKS ON PAPER Susan Glinska +44 (0)20 3725 5607 [email protected] Bringing colour into focus page 20-21 Francine Libessart +44 (0)20 3725 5613 [email protected] CALENDAR CONTROLLER Previews page 22-23 & FAIRS AND MARKETS ADVERTISING Rachel Tolley +44 (0)20 3725 5606 [email protected] Dealers’ Diary ATG PRODUCTION +44 (0)20 3725 5620 How artist Lamb mellowed out page 24-26 Muireann Grealy +44 (0)20 3725 5623 SUSTAINABLE RESOURCES International Events page 30-35 This product is produced from sustainably managed forests and controlled UK Auction Calendar page 36-40 sources. Lambs to the water It can be recycled. recycle Fairs, Markets & Centres Antiques Trade Gazette, Exhibition showcases how Harlequin Building, Pocket watches: a lockdown favourite page 42 65 Southwark Street, Henry Lamb returned from the London SE1 0HR war with a more subdued style +44 (0)20 3725 5500 Letters & Obituaries page 46-47 page 24 antiquestradegazette.com Printed by Buxton Press Ltd SK17 6AE Get your Morning Briefing from Antiques Trade Gazette If you want to keep on top of the latest news in the art and antiques world, signing up to Antiques Trade Gazette’s Morning Briefing email is a must. Free and delivered straight to your inbox on any device – mobile, tablet, laptop – the Gazette Morning Briefing keeps you informed with the latest news while at home and on the move. Sign up today for FREE and stay one step ahead antiquestradegazette.com/morningbriefing 2 | 13 February 2021 antiquestradegazette.com PAGE 002-2479.indd 1 05/02/2021 14:10:56 ATGFP_ATG FP 05/02/2021 14:54 Page 1 Ancient Art & Antiquities 23 February 2021 www.timelineauctions.com Lot No. 0006 Lot No. 0012 Lot No. 0036 Lot No. 0043 Lot No. 0054 Large Egyptian Canopic Large Egyptian Greek Attic Red-Figure Column Greek Corinthian Hellenistic Gilt Silver Jar of Baboon-Headed Hapi Striding Re-Horakhty Krater with Myth of Kephalos Warrior's Head Aryballos Cup with Nike Estimate: £15,000 - 20,000 Estimate: £40,000 - 60,000 Estimate: £10,000 - 14,000 Estimate: £5,000 - 7,000 Estimate: £18,000 - 24,000 Lot No. 0060 Lot No. 0085 Lot No. 0096 Lot No. 0175 Lot No. 0176 Eastern Mediterranean Hellenistic Gold Large Hellenistic Roman Funerary Stele Roman Marble Statue Female Statuette Bracelet with Heads Core-Formed Amphoriskos of Maximos and Zosimos of a Barbarian Prisoner Estimate: £8,000 - 10,000 Estimate: £10,000 - 14,000 Estimate: £12,000 - 17,000 Estimate: £12,000 - 17,000 Estimate: £15,000 - 20,000 Lot No. 0210 Lot No. 0274 Lot No. 0289 Lot No. 0349 Lot No. 0354 Byzantine Silver-Gilt Large Caucasian Bactrian Idol Corinthian Greek Priest's Altar Group Buckle with Three Stags with Garment of Leaves Helmet of a Hoplite Warrior Tinned Chalcidian Helmet Estimate: £30,000 - 40,000 Estimate: £5,000 - 7,000 Estimate: £20,000 - 30,000 Estimate: £60,000 - 80,000 Estimate: £20,000 - 30,000 Lot No. 0358 Lot No. 0364 Lot No. 0390 Lot No. 0452 Lot No. 0497 Pontic-Sarmatian Gilt Silver Roman Mater Castrorum Type East-Roman Migration Period Pre-Viking Silver 'The Hedingham Castle Estate' Plaque with Warrior Scene Cavalry Sports Helmet Sword with Jewelled Guard Plate with Running Beasts Elizabethan Gold Ring Estimate: £20,000 - 30,000 Estimate: £30,000 - 40,000 Estimate: £30,000 - 40,000 Estimate: £15,000 - 20,000 Estimate: £15,000 - 20,000 TimeLine Auctions Limited *Inc. Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregorys) Est. 1858 23-24 Berkeley Square, London W1J 6HE, UK +44 (0)20 7129 1494 *plus buyer's premium and other fees PAGE 003 2479.indd 1 05/02/2021 15:20:35 News Row breaks out over artist model’s estate sale December 11, just three days raised, three items from the Left: an oil on board of Furlong by Alex Capon after Furlong’s funeral, raising consignment were withdrawn by George Jardine sold for a hammer total of £42,000. after a request from a curator at £380 at the Hansons sale on A row has erupted over the The sale was reported in Art the Williamson. It was deemed December 11. circumstances surrounding the Market, ATG no 2476. that they best belonged in an auction of a collection of Charles Thomson, an artist archive collection. were to be auctioned in Decem- Modern British art in who knew Furlong, believes she What will happen to a ber and the council did not Derbyshire in December. had pledged her entire further group of Jardine works consider it appropriate to con- One of the buyers at Hansons collection to the Williamson from the Furlong collection test the sale at that time.” is claiming the sale should not Art Gallery in the Wirral by which had already been “We believe it was Miss Fur- Thomson told ATG that have proceeded as the late signing a ‘gift document’ to that transferred to the Williamson long’s wish, shortly before she Jardine works he bought at the owner – life model June Furlong effect six months before she prior to her death remains died, that these works of art Hansons auction would not be (1930-2020) – had pledged her died.